Zoonar/Thinkstock(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) -- New Zealand’s capital Wellington was struck by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake Sunday.
Nobody was reported as having been killed or seriously injured during the earthquake, which lasted a full minute, but ...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NAPIER, New Zealand) -- A 12-year-old New Zealand boy who was swept out to sea by rough waters was rescued by beachgoers after they formed a human chain to pull the boy back to the shore.Josh McQuiod had been playing with a frien...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) -- A New Zealand fisherman was one of many witnesses to a rare, deadly shark attack Wednesday on a man swimming 200 yards offshore, west of Auckland.“He just shouted out ‘shark,’ and the n...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock (file photo)(NEW YORK) -- It is safe to call spade-toothed beaked whales the world’s rarest whale species -- so rare that when a mother and calf became stranded and died on a New Zealand beach in 2010, scientists did not be...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A skydiver survived plunging to the ground Thursday afternoon after his parachute failed to open at the Motueka Airport on the South Island of New Zealand.Detective John Nicholls of the Motueka Police said in a state...

Antenna Audio, Inc./Getty Images(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) -- A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the western coast of New Zealand's North Island on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The agency said the tremor struck 35 miles south southwe...

(NEW YORK) -- Three Boston University students who were studying in New Zealand were killed Saturday when their minivan crashed near the vacation town of Taupo on the country’s North Island.Police said two identical minivans carrying students wer...

File photo. (Marty Melville/Getty Images)(CARTERTON, New Zealand) -- All eleven people onboard a hot air balloon were reportedly killed when it crashed outside a fairground near Carterton, New Zealand, early Saturday morning, local time.A witness said ...

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(APIA, Samoa) -- Samoa and Tokelau have decided to take the day off, but not in the traditional sense. The tiny Pacific nations will be moving to the other side of the international dateline at midnight Thursday night, jumping 24 ...